Master Classes descriptionsWe are proud to
present two half day sessions with two of the finest screenwriting
instructors in the business... Take one class or both: (9am to 12:30pm - Academy Six) with Pilar Alessandra www.onthepage.tv Get down and dirty with your
script by tearing it apart, one word at a
time. Learn what makes a professionally polished and well-crafted
script with expert advice and tips by the highly sought after speaker
and screenwriting coach Pilar Alessandra. In this Master Class, you
will identify and practice the methods professional writers use to
scrutinize their own work. Scene by scene, discover how to make
characters and dialogue leap off the page, through the hands of the
reader, and onto film and television screens. A career-creating class
that you won’t want to miss!
The first 15 people who sign up
will receive in-class feedback on a first page!
Pilar Alessandra is the
director of the popular writing program “On the
Page”. She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for
DreamWorks and Radar Pictures, and has trained writers at ABC/Disney,
MTV/Nickelodeon, the National Screen Institute, the Los Angeles Film
School, The UCLA Writers’ Program, and more. Her students
and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros, and Sony and
have won prestigious competitions such as the Austin Film Festival
Screenplay Competition and the Nicholl Fellowship. Pilar’s
weekly podcast “On the Page” can be found on iTunes.
Her book “The Coffee Break Screenwriter” will be released
fall of 2010.
(1:30pm to 5pm - Academy Six) with Karl Iglesias It’s not about plot points, act structure, or character. It’s about the reader’s emotional response! Screenwriter, author, and
script consultant Karl Iglesias will go
beyond the basics, teaching you a series of powerful storytelling
devices designed to help you create and sustain that emotional charge
throughout your screenplay. You’ll learn how to make your
concept appealing, humanize your main characters, energize narrative
descriptions, and turn flat, on-the-nose dialogue into individualized
speech that leaps off the page.
The main goal is to take your
writing to the professional standard of
excellence, the level at which the reader of your script can’t
help but say “WOW!” after reading your words.
Karl Iglesias is a screenwriter
and sought-after script doctor and consultant, specializing in the
reader’s emotional response to the written page. He is the
best-selling author of “Writing For Emotional Impact: Advanced
Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from
Beginning to End” and “The 101 Habits of Highly Successful
Screenwriters”. He teaches at the prestigious UCLA
Extension’s Writer’s Program, online at Writers University,
and has presented popular workshops around the world. Karl is
also a regular columnist on the craft for Creative Screenwriting
Magazine.
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